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Dental Tribune United Kingdom Edition No.1, 2017

“You too?” 02 Dental Tribune United Kingdom Edition | 1/2017 UK NEWS IMPRINT GROUP EDITOR/MANAGING EDITOR DT UK: Daniel ZIMMERMANN newsroom@dental-tribune.com Tel.: +44 161 223 1830 EDITORS: Kristin HÜBNER Yvonne BACHMANN ONLINE EDITOR/SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER: Claudia DUSCHEK MANAGING EDITOR & HEAD OF DTI COMMUNICATION SERVICES: Marc CHALUPSKY JUNIOR PR EDITOR: Brendan DAY COPY EDITORS: Hans MOTSCHMANN Sabrina RAAFF CLINICAL EDITORS: Magda WOJTKIEWICZ Nathalie SCHÜLLER PUBLISHER/PRESIDENT/CEO: Torsten R. 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Krejci, Conservative Dentistry, Switzerland Dr Edward Lynch, Restorative, Ireland Dr Ziv Mazor, Implantology, Israel Prof. Dr Georg Meyer, Restorative, Germany Prof. Dr Rudolph Slavicek, Function, Austria Dr Marius Steigmann, Implantology, Germany Published by DTI DENTAL TRIBUNE INTERNATIONAL Holbeinstr. 29, 04229, Leipzig, Germany Tel.: +49 341 48474-302 Fax: +49 341 48474-173 info@dental-tribune.com www.dental-tribune.com Regional Offices: UNITED KINGDOM 535, Stillwater Drive 5 Manchester M11 4TF Tel.: +44 161 223 1830 www.dental-tribune.co.uk DT ASIA PACIFIC LTD. c/o Yonto Risio Communications Ltd, Room 1406, Rightful Centre, 12 Tak Hing Street, Jordan, Kowloon, Hong Kong Tel.: +852 3113 6177 Fax: +852 3113 6199 DENTAL TRIBUNE AMERICA, LLC 116 West 23rd Street, Suite 500, New York, NY 10011, USA Tel.: +1 212 244 7181 Fax: +1 212 224 7185 © 2017, Dental Tribune International GmbH All rights reserved. Dental Tribune makes every ­ effort to report clinical information and manufacturer’s product news accurately, but cannot assume respon- sibility for the validity of product claims, or for typo- graphical errors. The publishers also do not assume responsibility for product names or claims, or state- ments made by advertisers. Opinions expressed by authors are their own and may not reflect those of Dental Tribune International. Scan this code to subscribe our weekly Dental Tribune UK e-newsletter. Newcastle figures question ­ reporting of dental emergencies By DTI LONDON, UK: With NHS trusts in crisis all over Britain, new esti- mates by Newcastle University’s Centre for Oral Health Research have indicated that a much higher number of people in the UK may present to medical emergency de- partments with dental problems than commonly believed. Accord- ing to the three-year study, which looked at coded A & E attendance data from the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, almost 1 per cent of all emergencies were people with some form of dental problem. Putting these figures in a na- tional context, the results suggest that ten times more people with dental complaints are visiting emergency departments than in­ dicated in official government fig- ures. While the latter estimated the number of dental emergencies to be 15,000 in 2014/2015, it could ­ actually be almost 150,000, adding to the already huge pressure that A & E departments face in the UK. CalculationsbytheBritishDen- tal Association have suggested that the additional burden amounts to £15 to 16 million per year for trusts, which are also not equipped to deal with many of these prob- lems. “If you experience toothache without significant other symp- toms, then heading to a hospital’s A&E department isn’t always nec- essarily the best option. Ensuring that patients are treated in the right place, at the right time, by the right team is essential for both the patient and the wider public, not just to ensure appropriate diagno- sis and treatment but also to reduce unnecessary care and personal costs,” said lead author of the study Dr Justin Durham, who also works as an honorary consultant at New- castle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. “This paper, and other recently published data from Newcastle University’s Orofacial pain re- search team, suggest there are ­ potentially significant problems in the care pathways both for tooth- ache, and also the group of condi- tions that cause persistent mouth and face pain such as Temporo- mandibular Disorders and Trigem- inal Neuralgia.” “We are seeing patients who need our care pushed towards medical colleagues who aren’t equipped to treat them. As long as government keeps slashing budg- ets, and ramping up charges we will keep seeing more of the same,” added Dr Henrik Overgaard-­ Nielsen, Chair of the British Dental Association’s General Dental Prac- tice Committee, on the figures. “GPs and A&E medics are hav- ing to pick up the pieces, while ­ government’s only strategy is to ask our patients to pay more in to plug the funding gap,” he also said. Overall, there were 2,504 visits to the trust’s A & E department owing to dental complaints and 10 per cent of these were by patients who had attended the department for dental problems before. 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